White Horse Mountain, from a distance, looks like a horse with a white mane and galloping hooves.

The first time Nonglu knew about Maqiao was when he was very young, Nonglu learned from his mother, who described that there is a white horse mountain in Maqiao, with high mountains and dangerous roads, good scenery, good tea trees, and skilled craftsmen. Therefore, the White Horse Mountain and the Maqiao were rooted in the memory of the farm as early as possible.

The second time I really came into contact with Baima Mountain was when I went to Maqiao with Nong Tianyi to visit relatives and friends, and at the same time prepared to buy Chashan.

This morning, they walked around the hinterland of Maqiao, and appreciated the fragrance of rice ripening in the hinterland of Baima Mountain, the golden color of corn, and the lush tea garden......

Nong Tianyi has been in the country for a long time, and there has always been a sense of unfinished business.

Nong Tianyi has returned from studying in Hankou's "Sanji Hall". This time on White Horse Mountain, the father and son went straight to White Horse Mountain Tea......

On a hot summer day, the blue sky was like a wash, stepping on the boundary of Maqiao, a cool wind blew from the lush cornfield, from the end of the rice field, from the lush chestnut trees and lush leaves on the mountain, and the mood of the two of them in the city for many days was blown away in an instant......

"Today we are going to take the form of one visit and two visits." Nong Lu said.

"Then let's go up to White Horse Mountain first." Nong Tianyi proposed.

They rushed to the top of White Horse Mountain. Because there are large alpine tea plantations around the summit.

Meandering all the way to the top of the mountain, standing on the top of the mountain and looking around, it is a piece of lush tea plantations, scattered in the form of terraces, the tea trees are one foot high, the leaves are green, the new tea leaves are tender, green and yellow, and under the reflection of the scorching sun, they shine with an oily green luster.

"The tea plantation in this mountain has nearly 2,000 acres, which can solve a lot of problems, and everyone comes here to do things, planting tea, picking tea, making tea, and managing tea gardens, killing multiple birds with one stone." Nong Lu said.

Nong Tian let out a series of "uh-huh".

At the top of Hakuba Mountain, at the end of the road, the distant river is like a belt, and the sky is white and white. They were suddenly cool and pleasant, and their hearts were relaxed.

"Father, you see, there's a pavilion there." Nong Tianyi shouted.

In this barren mountain range, a lonely pavilion suddenly appeared, and the farmer said thoughtfully: "The end of the road is often an excellent scenery!" ”

On the other side of the mountain, this pavilion is an observation deck, which can be seen on the White Horse Mountain, overlooking the whole of the horse bridge. If it is spring, the tea pickers should be full of mountains and fields, and laughter will be full of mountains.

"If you stand on that hill, you can still see the county seat of Nanyi......" Nonglu said, pointing to a nearby hill.

Nong Tianyi sighed: "What a wonderful scenery. ”

Standing on the White Horse Mountain, the horse bridge has a panoramic view, and in the surrounding high mountains, the horse bridge is quietly and peacefully spread out in the towering green of the mountain:

A gray gravel road divides the horse bridge into two, the road is zigzag, the two sides of the road are patches of corn fields and rice fields, in the gap of the crop field, at the foot of the mountain, a number of dwellings are on the mountain, black tiles, white walls, only to see the tea garden lined up neatly in a row, the tea trees are growing one by one, and the horizontal and vertical climb along the mountain in an orderly manner, the cyan is the lush branches and leaves of the tea trees, and the yellow-brown ones are the branches of the tea trees that have just been pruned.

On the way down White Horse Mountain, they came to Li Qinghong's house, which was the old tea man they were going to visit today. This is a civil structure of the dwelling, the rice field in front of the door is green and beautiful, the front of the house is cleaned up, a few camphor trees are dotted in the meantime, the green bamboo is quite beautiful, a pastoral and leisurely beauty.

The farmer all sighed: clean, it's so clean!

They were received by the daughter-in-law of the old tea man, at this time, an elderly man with a dry tobacco, a fan, and a single coat greeted him, only to see him in good spirits, coming out of the clean and tidy house, and seeing the simple and kind old man in front of him, Nong Lu couldn't help but admire in his heart.

After the greetings, the old man Li Qinghong talked about the history of tea planting in Maqiao.

The old tea man said: Planting tea has become everyone's main concern. The ancestors have long reclaimed wasteland in Baima Mountain in Maqiao, which is very difficult, and after the reclamation is completed, there are more than 100 acres of tea plantations all of a sudden, which can be regarded as having a foundation. Then it was reclaimed, the new garden and the old garden were connected into a piece, one mountain after another, one beam around one beam, one garden after another, after several generations of efforts, finally the tea trees were connected into several large pieces, forming quite a spectacular tea mountain.

Tea is planted, the growth is also gratifying, four years later to the picking period, but how to fry tea, at that time the village people are laymen, while frying tea while pondering, get a period of time, there is no good result, fried tea even their own throat is difficult to drink, let alone sell tea to make some money.

At this time, the villager Li Li did not believe in evil, so he was looking for a way to make tea, and it took a few rounds to do it, and it took a lot of work, and the fried tea still couldn't be used, and it was a little different, Li Li felt very faceless, but he was also very helpless, and was about to give up, and finally everyone encouraged him, he said, then I will do it hard. He also got into the stock and suffered a lot, and soon, he fried the yellow tea.

Speaking of this, the old tea man himself laughed. They laughed too.

Sipping tea, the old tea man continued, and then, Li Li went out to visit the famous tea master, learned the craft, and after coming back, he studied repeatedly, and finally fried the authentic yellow tea and green tea with a lot of energy, and the people of Maqiao did not forget Li Li, an old-timer.

The old tea man said emotionally, the tea is fried, but how to sell it? At first, the people outside didn't buy it, they packed it in paper bags, everyone carried the tea burden, went to the village to visit the households, and let others taste it for free. This affected the management and protection of tea mountains, and slowly many tea gardens were left untended and abandoned. What a pity!

Nonglu also said, "It's a pity. ”

As a result, the "Sanjitang Tea Shop" in Nonglu appeared, and they hit it off at the right time.

"And what's going on now?" Nonglu couldn't wait to ask.

"No, I'm old, and Chashan wants you Sanjitang to come alive." Old man Li Qinghong said.

The nearly 1,000 acres of tea mountains in Baima Mountain have entered the territory of "Sanjitang Tea Shop" and the "Sanjitang" product series.

In the summer, after the farm acquired the tea mountain, it immediately began to transform the tea leaves, and when pruning in the summer, the pruned tea leaves can also be made into summer tea, which is also a large amount of income.

Tea can be picked three times a year, and the farm is stealing fun!

Later, Nong Tianyi named the tea produced in this tea mountain "White Horse Tea". Its tea name comes from the tea recorded in Mao Wenxi's "Tea Book" of the Five Dynasties, because there was a tea name of "White Horse Tea" in the Tang Dynasty, which was produced in the Xiazhou area. At the same time, the name of the tea alludes to the name of the mountain.

As soon as Nong Tianyi had his own ideas, he told his father to restore and develop Baima tea, specializing in the brand of "Baima Gaoshan Tea".

His father nodded in agreement.

Baima Mountain is located in the high mountains and has a natural excellent alpine tea endowment, which is really rare.